From California Catholic Daily:
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ annual Mass in honor of Cesar Chavez will not take place this year, amid new revelations of alleged sexual abuse by the late civil rights icon.
The Mass was cancelled by the Chavez family days before a March 18 New York Times report published evidence that the labor leader had groomed and sexually abused underage girls during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, when Chavez helped lead the farm worker rights movement in California. “We agreed with the family’s decision,” the archdiocese said in a statement. “The recent news reports of the allegations are disturbing.”